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I can't stop.

Spoiler Free Thoughts

So much of this game, this interactive short story, is in the things you discover as the player. To put it simply and hopefully without ruining anything, you take control of Katie Greenbriar, a 20-year-old girl who is returning from a year abroad. During her time abroad, her family, consisting of her parents and younger sister, have moved into a new home. You show up after a late flight to find no one home and a note on the door from your sister begging you not to snoop around and find out where she went. Obviously, you’re not going to take this weirdness laying down, so you investigate.

The gameplay is simple. You use arrow keys or WASD to move, the mouse to look and interact with objects and 1/2/3 for Items, Map, and Journal. That’s it. The game will take anywhere from 2-4 hours to experience the story and mystery of where your family is, what’s with this house and how they came to be there.

I know some people have a hard time calling this a game, or say that what the player does isn’t actually ‘playing’; but to me, that’s just semantics. If we wanted to give in, we could call it an interactive story, something much more involved than a TV show, but less controlled than a standard video game experience. I may be wrong on this, but I’m not here to argue its classification.

If this has at all made you interested in trying the game I urge you to go do so without reading further. Don’t look at any other spoilers, nothing. If you have ever felt lost, in love, rejected, confused by yourself or your own family, if you’re at all empathetic for fictional characters, you owe it to yourself to check it out.


You can find my full review here:
http://www.nerdophiles.com/2015/01/30/going-home-again/